NAME

net-mqtt-pub - Perl script for publishing to an MQTT topic

VERSION

version 1.143260

SYNOPSIS

  # messages one per line on stdin
  echo message | net-mqtt-pub [options] topic

  # message as command line arguments
  net-mqtt-pub [options] topic this is a message

DESCRIPTION

This script publishes each line from stdin as an MQTT message on the given topic.

OPTIONS

-help: Print a brief help message.
-man: Print the manual page.
-host: The host running the MQTT service. The default is 127.0.0.1.
-port: The port of the running MQTT service. The default is 1883.
-client-id: The client id to use in the connect message. The default is 'NetMQTTpm' followed by the process id of the process.
-verbose: Include more verbose output. Without this option the script only outputs errors
-keepalive NNN: The keep alive timer value. Defaults to 120 seconds. For simplicity, it is also currently used as the connection timeout.
-retain: Set the retain flag on the message. Default is not set.

DISCLAIMER

This is not official IBM code. I work for IBM but I'm writing this in my spare time (with permission) for fun.

AUTHOR

Mark Hindess <soft-cpan@temporalanomaly.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.